Ashby grateful to old pal for easing keeper crisis
Published: 00:00, 30 September 2008
Updated: 17:32, 30 September 2008
Margate boss Barry Ashby has thanked former Watford team-mate Perry Suckling for helping ease the Thanet club’s goalkeeping problems by offering them Tottenham youngster Lee Butcher.
Scott Chalmers-Stevens and Pat Mullin are both sidelined by injury, so Ashby and Neville Southall began searching for cover and Suckling, now goalkeeping coach at White Hart Lane, responded.
Ashby said: "Perry got back, and offered Lee to us. He is highly rated, and has played for their academy and reserve teams. He has come in and done well."
Both Chalmers-Stevens (thumb) and Mullin (metatarsal) could be out for another three to four weeks.
Gate return to league action at home to Hastings on Saturday.
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